Working like it’s 1999

So talk about flash­backs! Today I did some honest-to-God PC hard­ware work. Last week my hard­work­ing beast of a desk­top PC crashed and was out for the count. It was the Moth­er­board from what I could tell. I would hit power, it would boot on, I might see the Bios screen and then it would reboot again. So I just left the machine off and pro­ceeded to get sick over the weekend.

Come Mon­day I’m mostly recov­ered and I men­tion the prob­lem to dad. He agreed with my assess­ment but life con­tin­ued to inter­vene (largely because I’ve changed, namely I’d rather spend time with K than fix my desk­top, I’ve got my lap­top any­ways.) So tonight I come home and put in two hours of elbow grease, test­ing this replace­ment board to be sure it works before I go through the motions. Sure enough, it all came back to me. The nec­es­sary con­nec­tions, the jumper set­tings, the cable hook-ups. Sheesh, you’d think I did this all the damn time while grow­ing up.

So the desk­top is back up and work­ing, and tomor­row stay tuned as I tell you what my big project is right now.